Classes you get when you give college students control
For much of each week, UC Berkeley senior Caelle McKaveney studies chemical signaling in spiders, nucleotide coding patterns and other serious science.
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The Changing English Major
Amid enrollment declines, speakers at Modern Language Association discuss shifts in the major, such as a de-emphasis of traditional survey and the addition of more writing-related courses.
China to release unified English proficiency standards by the end of 2017
Chinese students who study English will take fewer tests to prove their proficiency after new unified standards for English-language learning are released at the end of this year.
High-flying graduates ‘underestimate skill level’
High-achieving graduates tend to rate their skills and abilities lower than those who leave university with weaker grades, says a study on how learning gain might be measured.
‘No Certificate of Global Citizenship’
Amid turn toward nationalism, global educators consider their work.
Report finds ‘growing’ demand for college program
The Tennessee Higher Education Commission is asking the state to pump more money into a $20 million grant program that partners employers with colleges to develop academic programs tailored to the needs of local job markets.
The Price Women Pay for Co-Authorship
Study of economics faculty members finds that men get credit where women do not.
UK government warned over two-year degree proposal
The UK government has been told to restructure funding for higher education rather than “ply on more debt” for students ...
HE and Research Bill: ‘essay mill’ amendment could stamp out contract cheating
An amendment has been proposed to the Higher Education and Research Bill that would make it an “offence to provide or advertise cheating services”.
Complaining of bias on campus, Republicans push for ‘intellectual diversity’ at UW schools
Conservative critics of higher education in Wisconsin have opened a new chapter of their long-running complaints about institutions such as UW-Madison ...
